[GRLUG] fat32 to ntfs

[Professor Inuyasha]

Well I'm Windows User & Linux User, I would recommend you to grab second
hard drive and backup your files from primary then format primary from fat32
into ntfs then restore your backup files

if OS installed on primary, then you would have to re-install

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Rich Nagel <networkman at triton.net> wrote:

> I just "googled" the same command in quotes and got the following link at
> Microsoft's site:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881
>
> Frankly, were it me, at the very least I'd take an image or make a backup
> of
> the partition in question before attempting this conversion command.  My
> preference though would be to image/backup the data, delete the partition
> in
> question and create another natively NTFS (or whatever you want) from the
> start.
>
> Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com>
> To: <grlug at grlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] fat32 to ntfs
>
>
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Short question:
> >> How can I convert a large partition from fat32 to ntfs without loss of
> >> data?  Basically does changing cluster size reformat the partition?
> >>
> >> Googleing, I found that fat32 to ntfs is a simple "convert drive
> >> letter: /fs:ntfs" this can be done without lose of data.
> >
> > Is this a Windows command?  I hadn't heard of it.
> >
> > Otherwise, NTFS and FAT32 are fundamentally different; Your best bet
> > would be to attack a large external disk to the system, format it as
> > NTFS, and use cp -ra to copy the files from your FAT32 disk to your
> > NTFS disk.  Then reformat your FAT32 disk as NTFS, and use cp -ra to
> > copy the files back.
> >
> >>
> >> I also found that the optimal cluster sizes of the two file systems
> >> are different.  I can't seem to find any information as to whether
> >> changing cluster sizes destroys the data in a partition or not.
> >>
> >
> > Keyword: optimal.
> >
> > It doesn't really matter unless you're dealing with millions of really
> > tiny files.  So unless you're in that situation, don't worry about it.
> >
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> > :wq
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